To raise awareness of Breast Cancer Awareness Month and to support his mother who was diagnosed with the disease a year ago, Trevor Foster, 11, of Columbus, Ind., decided to sport a pink mohawk complete with a breast cancer ribbon design on the side.

"I told my dad I had doubts I wasn't going to be able to do basketball
because of it," he said. "But he told me that wouldn't happen and I had
nothing to worry about."

Frost, who declined to comment, initially forbade him from trying out
for the team unless he changed his hairdo, said Trevor and his father, Tamage Foster.
According to them, she said there were other ways of expressing support
for the cause, citing how NBA and NFL players wear pink socks or
shoelaces.

"It made me furious," Trevor said.

But after local TV coverage
and a social media campaign by Trevor's father, it appears Trevor has
won a victory. He will be allowed to try out for the team, after all.

Both father and son met with Frost this morning. Not only did she tell
them Trevor could try out for the team, they said, but she proposed he
be one of the leaders of a new student council geared toward raising
funds for breast cancer research.

Frost even donned pink with her suit today, Trevor said, and "told me it was just for me."

But he still isn't convinced.

"She apologized but it didn't help much," he said. "I'm still
disappointed that she said what she said. It was just wrong to say
that."

It wasn't the first time Trevor had a problem with Frost when it came to
pink attire. Last year, Trevor was forced to turn his pink shirt inside
out and surrender his "I Love Boobies" bracelet to his teacher,
Trevor's father said.

Tamage Foster's other two children have not had any problems with school officials, he said.

After his son ran into trouble over his mohawk, Tamage Foster said he
turned to social media and expressed his concerns on his Facebook page
before contacting the school board, which confirmed that there are no
regulations prohibiting Trevor's hairdo.

His mother, Stacey, who is being released from the hospital today after
recovering from surgery on Monday, said she was "disappointed and angry"
upon hearing her son was being chided for merely expressing himself.

"This was one way he thought he could support me through this surgery,"
she said. "When parents have cancer we don't really understand what our
children go through. For him, it was his way of showing support for me
all the way."

Along with her husband and son, she hopes Frost will follow through with
the proposed student council that would aim to get the community
involved in raising awareness for breast cancer.